The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-11-10
Kanses Thrift.

A sixteen acre field at Garnett Yield
ed 700 bushels of tomatoes to the acre.
L. II. Roberts, of Mop herson, threshed
IT'S bushels of frst-class oats from nine
teen acres.
Thirty thousand bushels of apples
haxe been raised by farmer in Leay-
enworth county this year.
The stockholders of the Newton
Mining Company have let the contract
for boring $500 feet into the ground.
Fall wheat in Webaunsee county
never looked better, and the promise
for large yield next year is excel
lieut..
Kansas leads in everything. This
Office was this week presented with a
radish that weighed ten pounds
Frankfort Bee.
The Waterville Telegraph mentions
a farm of $40 acres on high prairie,
near that city, which produced, in this
dry year, e,764 bushels Of wheat on
156 acres, $40 bushels of oats on Is
acres. The IT'S acres of corn yield at
least % bushels per acre.
A German farmer living near An
thony on place he rented this spring,
says that the money he will get out OF
the hay on his sixty acres of meadow
will more than pay the rent of the place
this year, without having to use any of
the money from his corn, potato and
other crops.
This year watermelons have been
sold in Washington that weighed fifty
pounds; muskmelons, thirty-six pounds.
Beets have been two feet long, cucum-
bers three feet long. Pumpkins have
weighed seventy-five pounds. Ears of
corn have been sixteen inches long and
nine inches in circumference.
John Wittorf, one of the prosperous
because progressive-fa farmers of Reno
county, says that he has this year
twenty-five acres of turnips which sell
for thirty-fye cents per bushel in
market, and leave good crop of tur-
nips and volunteer wheat and oats for
the cattle to gather, ut pays BETTER"
he says, ethan last years wheat crop"
Kansas is a great agricultural and |
stock-growing state; but nevertheless
1000, 900 tons of coal are dug from its |
soil annually. 1t spouts more natural |
gas than any other state in the union
except Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The last important industry develop
ed in Kansas is that of glass making.
A fine quality of glass Vas made at
Paola last week. The furnace for heat
ing the sand lime, and sulphate of soda,
the materials from which glass is made,
forms the principal part of the glass
works. 1t is heated by portion of
the gas from one of Paola's twelve
flowing wells. Fifty glass blowers from
the east have recently removed to that
city. Fort Scott is making extensive
for glass mandatory.
This is the first year of glass industry
in Kansas, and it promises to be a
success.
Judge Parkinson, of the Fl. Scott
sugar works, sums up the matter as
follows: 1--WE shall build factories and
make Kansas greater sugar producing
state than is louisiana. The Louisiana
planter must have five dollars per ton
for his cane to make a profit. This.
with their best factories, yields from
l2O to l6O pounds of sugar, with a good
season, and they have abost four good
seasong out of five. Our cane can be
produced proftably for sl.5O per ton,
and at less expense than that required
10 work the Louisiana cane. We can
ian get from 200 to go pounds of
equally as good sugar every year. 1
nave said nothing of our seed that
Fields twenty bushels to the acre, nor
# our increased syrup product over
hat Of the Louisiana one."